To view this newsletter in the browser, click here                 Issue #124       A newsletter from Creativegarh to help you live a life of passion, purpose and meaning.         A flaw should not end the flow.                     Nothing flows like a dream. For that matter, not even a dream flows like a dream. When you are ready to enter a trance, a tranquil state of flow, mistakes will come and go. Allow them into the process.           Everyone makes mistakes—artists, writers, coders, teachers, accountants, photographers, mothers, fathers, homemakers—everyone, even those who call themselves perfectionists.           Creation is not about making inadvertent mistakes; it is about what you do after you've made them. Life is never about how you fail; it's about how you rise again and again after failing.           Do you mop and cry, call yourself names, and abandon your work? Or do you acknowledge the mistake, shrug it off, and keep creating?           Do you admit the mistake at the cost of your self-esteem, or do you build the mistake into the flow and carry on?           Do you see the mistake as a death blow to your confidence, or do you view it as a beautiful recipe for an accident that leads to a new stream of ideas and innovation?           Do you take the mistake as a sign of your mediocrity, or do you see it as a learning experience?           Invite failures and mistakes into your creation process. They make you more resilient, help build creative muscle, and open you to new paths—a secret doorway you didn't even know existed: a new storyline, a new series, a new character, a new style, a new recipe, a new joke, a new pattern, a new discovery, a new response to a chronic reaction, a new approach to living, a new insight into your being, and a kickstart to a healing journey.           You don't have to ignore those mistakes; acknowledge them and move on. Don't defend mistakes—no one cares beyond a point. Don't slash your wrists. You have a lifetime more of creation left in you.           Release yourself from the failure of your last reel, from the cold response to your last show. Release yourself from the abandonment of the creative fairies in your last collection of poems. Release yourself from the pain of a box office disaster. Release yourself from the failure of your last relationship. Release yourself from the discouraging response to your last book. Release yourself from the past and the expectations of the future.           Let it flaw. Let it flow.                 And one day, hard work will become heart work.                     It starts with pain. Not a lame ache in your calves after a day of being on your feet or the tingling in your arm. It starts with a dull throbbing in the core of your being and if not attended to becomes a non-stop pounding that blows the wind out of you. It starts gnawing at the very fabric of the life that you have built to feel lovable by the world.           Soon that pain becomes unbearable. It makes a mockery of your life. It pokes you for the lack of inner joy in your life. It ridicules you for having the means to live a life but having no meaning in it. It derides you for taking up space on the planet without creating space for happiness for others. It taunts you for not being able to justify your existence of being devoted only to your ego, your separate self, your conditioned beingness and not honouring your higher self, your unconditional beingness. It jeers at you for being a taker, not a giver, being a fearful commoner, not a fearless hero.           You turn the inevitable pain into suffering and one fine day, your soul goes through a dark night. You wake up and try to give meaning to your suffering. Victimhood is tempting, it allows you to put the blame on your pain without taking responsibility for it, it keeps you in the comfort zone, it allows you to stay in the familiarity of toxicity. But then there is evolution and fulfillment that your soul craves for.           You make the choice. You do the hard work. You meet suffering with love. You sit with your pain and instead of shunning and reprimanding it for coming into your life, you accept it with love, and ask it to give you the messages from the universe. And then the pain talks. It’s a blabbermouth. It tells you of how in the pursuit of being at the service to your ego, you forgot your real service - to you and the universe that you share with antelopes and humans, lions and hamsters, children and butterflies, bees and dolphins, kings of the past and the generations of the future, ancestors and new species in the oceans and skies.           You find meaning, a purpose to live and love, a reason bigger than you. From the mind, you drop into your heart and put in the heart work that leads you to the divine within you.       Our upcoming retreats                         CG Teens, Mumbai Registrations Open 21st to 22nd December     This non-residential 2-day retreat is designed to help teenagers reconnect with their authenticity and inner guidance system to create a joyful life.   More details     Reignite conversation     Andretta Registrations Open 16th to 22th March     To reconnect to your inner child at a beautiful hillside retreat with 14+ soulful individuals will make this a life-transforming experience. See you at Andretta!   More details     Reignite conversation     Kasauli Registrations Open 20th to 26th April     The stunning vistas and holistic experiences at Kasauli create the perfect space for self-discovery, and ensure this retreat is a transformative and unforgettable experience!   More details     Reignite conversation           This week, let's revisit     Nainital February 2023                         Experience a life full of purpose                     I believe existence should be empowering towards nature and my purpose is to achieve this through Brand Acceleration.   Shashank Agarwal Tirthan Valley, December 2022         My purpose is to be a catalyst in shifting people's perspectives, to help them see the possible in the impossible.   Anitha Ranjit Munnar, October 2022               For a daily dose of Creativegarh and our retreats, follow us here:                           Nirali Manchanda         Kausar Sultana         Advaita Dubey               View Our Collabs for Joy                   creativegarh.com             You are receiving this newsletter because either you have subscribed to it through our website, interacted with us by filling an invite form or because you have asked us to put you on the database. 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